Led by doctoral student Tatsuya Kotani and Professor Tomoharu Oka from Keio University, the research team measured the temperature of the cosmic microwave background radiation, which is the faint ...

Hubble’s updated view of NGC 3370, richer in light and detail than ever before, deepens our understanding of both the galaxy and the cosmos itself. This new Hubble Picture of the Week highlights a ...

A team of astronomers has discovered the largest and most distant water reservoir ever detected in the universe, surrounding a quasar more than 12 billion light-years away. The finding pushes the ...

Wormholes, conceptual tunnels slicing through spacetime, offer a theoretical shortcut between two distant cosmic points.

Using the wide-field survey capabilities of the Subaru Telescope, astronomers discovered active supermassive black holes, or quasars, in the distant universe and then studied them with the James Webb ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and its JADES program have identified AT2023 ADS-V, a core-collapse supernova occurring 1.7 billion years after the Big Bang, representing the most distant ...

The question of how fast the universe is expanding continues to confound scientists. Although it might seem like a fairly straightforward issue, the reality is that it has been perplexing the best ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, scientists have charted billions of years of galactic evolution, finding that galaxies ...

New observations from the James Webb Space Telescope suggest that a new feature in the universe—not a flaw in telescope measurements—may be behind the decadelong mystery of why the universe is ...

Researchers have moved one step closer to solving one of science’s greatest mysteries—why the universe is filled with matter instead of nothing. Scientists at Indiana University have made a major ...

The expansiveness of the universe could make interstellar communication difficult, even for the most advanced civilizations.